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DHAKA, March 11 (Xinhua) — he Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli has confirmed that apart from Mr. Helal Uddin, another Bangladeshi has been identified who was among nine others abducted from Al Ghani Oil Field south of the city Sirte on Friday, 06 March 2015 in the same incident when gunmen invaded the oil field killing […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim, Paul Giblin The annual GSMA Mobile World Congress, whose tenth edition started here Monday, always creates a buzz with this year being no exception. The Mobile World Congress (MWC) showcases the latest smartphones and devices aimed at producing a connected world, amid an estimated 90,000 visitors and about 1,900 global exhibitors, reports Xinhua. […]
Read MoreSLAMABAD, March 1 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and India have officially confirmed that a top Indian diplomat will visit Islamabad on March 3, raising optimism for the revival of stalled diplomatic talks between the two countries. The visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will be the first high-level diplomatic contact between the two nuclear neighbors […]
Read MoreBEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) — China’s central bank announced on Saturday that it will slash benchmark deposit and loan interest rates by 25 basis points from March 1, a second such cut in three months, underscoring continuing downward pressure on the world’s second-largest economy. The cut will bring the one-year deposit rate to 2.5 percent, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The death toll in Sunday’s ferry disaster in Bangladesh’s northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 78 with the recovery of seven more bodies on Wednesday. The district’s administration chief Rashida Ferdous said the ferry MV Mostafa was lifted by a salvage ship on Monday. MV Mostafa, which was reportedly carrying […]
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DHAKA, Feb. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The Special Judge Court-3 of Md Abu Ahmed Jomadar Wednesday scrapped bails for ex-Prime MinisterKhaleda Zia and two others in two graft cases. Zainul Abedin Meshbah, a counsel for Khaleda, told journalists that Khaleda Zia, , also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), could not appear before the court for security […]
Read MoreChina saw a passenger flow return peak on Monday as the week-long Lunar New Year holiday drew to an end. Xinhua photo
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — The death toll in Sunday’s ferry disaster in Bangladesh’s northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 69 with the recovery of 28 more bodies on Monday. The district’s administration chief Rashida Ferdous said the ferry MV Mostafa was lifted by a salvage ship on Monday. “Divers and villagers have retrieved a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — At least 37 bodies have been recovered after a ferry with about 100 passengers sank on Sunday afternoon in the middle of Padma river in northwestern Manikganj district, some 63 km from Dhaka after it was hit by a goods laden cargo tanker. Most of the passengers managed to swim […]
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